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Make sure you check the comments below as people are confessing their gaming injuries! Please add your "incidents" (or your mates!) to the list too as it's great hearing that we're not the only one's who damage ourselves playing games! Yes!!!We've been playing loads of Geometry Wars recently, and one thing we've noticed is that it really kills your wrist if you play a little too much. And yes it is Geometry Wars that's doing it - NO OTHER extra curricular activities are to blame...
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Anyway. It made us remember our youth many years ago and how we used to experience similar sorts of gaming inflicted injuries. These days we never really see it, at least in our own lives. The last one we can remember is when we used to play Killer Instinct everyday and end up with "KI Thumb" whereby you'd wear your thumb down to a thin layer of pain, from that lovely SNES pad.
So what are the serious type of gaming injuries?

Well we've seen loads of reports on the internet of people getting carpal tunnel, which makes us think of Animal Crossing. There's RSI ( Repetitive Strain Injury ), HAVS ( Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome ), motion sickness and stuff like seizures. Not forgetting the easily influenced type who actually cause problems as a result of gaming. Remember the chaps who play GTA that like to kill their real life mates?
We've also seen people who have fatigue and back ache from playing too many hours of World Of Warcraft. And of course there's the crazy people who live in other countries who die. Now they're the committed ones.
But where's the interesting stuff? Where's the You've Been Framed style clips of Dad falling over all those cables headfirst into the TV? Where's the pictures of the kid sitting in the hospital waiting room who's become fused to his joypad, or his sister who has it firmly stuck in her head?
What's the best injury you, or someone you know has had as a result of gaming? There must be something interesting out there?!?!
UPDATE - Reading some of the comments below reminded us of our worst injury! We were playing the Resident Evil remake on the GameCube, sitting in our gaming deck chair. Yup you guessed it! We fell through the dam thing when we properly jumped after a zombie burst through a door that we foolishly thought was firmly closed.